Brian McKnight Quotes
I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
Quotes to Explore
-
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
-
I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
-
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
-
I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
-
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
-
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
-
I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
-
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
-
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
-
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
-
I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
-
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
-
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
-
I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
-
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
-
It is well for one to know more than he says.
-
Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
-
I love working with family and friends because, as an actor, it makes my job easy. I feel comfortable with all of these people, and I feel more willing to take risks.
-
I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
